Publications

Journal papers

1. Philip Guerra, Esteban Gil, Víctor Hinojosa, "Improving the Computational Efficiency of the Unit Commitment Problem in Hydrothermal Systems by Using Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning". IEEE Access, 2024. DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2024.3383442.  Link PDF

2. Carlos Vergara, Esteban Gil, Víctor Hinojosa, "Generation and Transmission Expansion Planning using a Nested Decomposition Algorithm", Energies, vol. 17(7), 2024. DOI: 10.3390/en17071509. Link PDF

3. Tomás Ochoa, Esteban Gil, Alejandro Angulo, Carlos Valle, "Multi-agent Deep Reinforcement Learning for Efficient Multi-Timescale Bidding of a Hybrid Power Plant in Day-Ahead and Real-Time Markets". Applied Energy, vol. 317, July 2022. DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2022.119067. Link

4. Joaquín de la Barra, Alejandro Angulo, Esteban Gil, "A Model for Simultaneous Location and Coordination of Protective Devices in Radial Distribution Networks", IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution, vol. 15, no. 19, pp. 2734-2746, Oct. 2021. DOI: 10.1049/gtd2.12211. Link PDF

5. Esteban Gil, Yerel Morales, Tomás Ochoa, "Addressing the Effects of Climate Change on Modeling Future Hydroelectric Energy Production in Chile", Energies, vol. 14(241), 2021. DOI: 10.3390/en14010241. Link PDF

6. Néstor González-Cabrera, Guillermo Gutierrez, Esteban Gil, “An efficient method for Contingency-Constrained Transmission Expansion Planning”, Electric Power Systems Research, vol. 182, May 2020. DOI: 10.1016/j.epsr.2020.106208. Link PDF

7. Diego Godoy, Esteban Gil, Guillermo Gutierrez, “Ramping ancillary service for cost-based electricity markets with high penetration of variable renewable energy”, Energy Economics, vol. 85, Jan. 2020. DOI: 10.1016/j.eneco.2019.104556. Link PDF

8. Ana Núñez, Guillermo Gutiérrez, Esteban Gil, “Strategic Generation Bidding and Scheduling under Price Uncertainty”, IEEE Latin America Transactions, vol. 16, no. 5, pp.1445-1453, 2018. DOI: 10.1109/TLA.2018.8408440. Link PDF

9. Néstor González-Cabrera, Guillermo Gutierrez, Esteban Gil, “Transmission Expansion Planning Considering an Hourly Demand Curve”, IEEE Latin America Transactions, vol. 16, no. 3, pp. 869-875, 2018. DOI: 10.1109/TLA.2018.8358667. Link PDF

10. Erick López, Carlos Valle, Héctor Allende, Esteban Gil, Henrik Madsen, “Wind Power Forecasting Based on Echo State Networks and Long Short-Term Memory”, Energies, vol. 11, no. 3, 2018. DOI: 10.3390/en11030526. Link PDF

11. Iván Chaparro, David Watts, Esteban Gil, “Modeling marginal CO2 emissions in hydrothermal systems: Efficient carbon signals for renewables”, Applied Energy, vol. 204, pp. 318-331, Oct. 2017. DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2017.06.107. Link 

12. Esteban Gil, Juan Araya, “Short-term hydrothermal generation scheduling using a parallelized stochastic mixed-integer linear programming algorithm ”, Energy Procedia, vol. 87, pp. 77-84, Jan. 2016. DOI: 10.1016/j.egypro.2015.12.360. Link PDF

13. Esteban Gil, “Power system reliability impacts of wind generation and operational reserve requirements ”, Ingeniería e Investigación, vol. 35, no. 1sup, pp. 82-88, Dec. 2015. DOI: 10.15445/ing.investig.v35n1Sup.53698. Link PDF

14. Esteban Gil, Ignacio Aravena, Raúl Cárdenas, “Generation capacity expansion planning under hydro uncertainty using stochastic mixed integer programming and scenario reduction”, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 30, no. 4, pp. 1838-1847, July 2015. DOI: 10.1109/TPWRS.2014.2351374. Link PDF

15. Ignacio Aravena, Esteban Gil, “Hydrological scenario reduction for stochastic optimization in hydrothermal power systems”, Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry, vol. 31, no. 2, pp. 231-240, March/April 2015. DOI: 10.1002/asmb.2027. Link PDF

16. Esteban Gil, Ignacio Aravena, “Evaluating the capacity value of wind power considering transmission and operational constraints”, Energy Conversion and Management, vol. 78, pp. 948-955, Feb. 2014. DOI: 10.1016/j.enconman.2013.06.063. Link PDF

17. Claudio Castillo, Esteban Gil, “Assessing power system adequacy for different penetrations of wind and solar capacity in a thermal system”, Ingenerare, vol. 27, pp. 15-27, Dec. 2013. Link PDF

18. Esteban Gil, James McCalley, “A US energy system model for disruption analysis: Evaluating the effects of 2005 hurricanes”, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 26, no. 3, pp. 1040-1049, Aug. 2011. DOI: 10.1109/TPWRS.2010.2089810. Link PDF

19. Ana Quelhas, Esteban Gil, James McCalley, Sarah Ryan, “A multiperiod generalized network flow model of the U.S. integrated energy system. Part I – Model description”, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 22, no. 2, pp. 829-836, May 2007. DOI: 10.1109/TPWRS.2007.894844. Link PDF

20. Ana Quelhas, Esteban Gil, James McCalley, “Nodal prices in an integrated energy system: a generalised network flow modelling approach”, International Journal of Critical Infrastructures, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 50-69, 2006. DOI: 10.1504/IJCIS.2006.008498. Link PDF

21. Esteban Gil, Julian Bustos, Hugh Rudnick, “Short-term hydrothermal generation scheduling model using a genetic algorithm”, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 18, no. 4, pp. 1256-1264, Nov. 2003. DOI: 10.1109/TPWRS.2003.819877. Link PDF

Book chapters

1. Erick López, Carlos Valle, Héctor Allende, Esteban Gil, “Long short-term memory networks based in echo state networks for wind speed forecasting”. In: Mendoza M., Velastín S. (eds) Progress in Pattern Recognition, Image Analysis, Computer Vision, and Applications. CIARP 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 10657. Springer, Cham, 2018. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-75193-1_42. Link PDF

2. Erick López, Carlos Valle, Héctor Allende, Esteban Gil, “Efficient Training Over Long Short-Term Memory Networks for Wind Speed Forecasting”. In: Beltrán-Castañón C., Nyström I., Famili F. (eds) Progress in Pattern Recognition, Image Analysis, Computer Vision, and Applications. CIARP 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 10125. Springer, Cham, 2017. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-52277-7_50. Link PDF

Conference papers

1. Raúl Cárdenas, Esteban Gil, "Optimizing Capacity Expansion Planning: An Efficient Two-Stage Stochastic Programming Solution using Lagrangian Relaxation", 2024 IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting (IEEE-PES-GM 2024), Seattle, USA, July 21-25, 2024. Accepted, to be presented.

2. Sergio Díaz, Esteban Gil, Jorge Berríos, “Operating Reserve Demand Curves for the Integration of Variable Renewable Energies into the Chilean Power System”, XI Simposio Internacional sobre la Calidad de la Energía (SICEL 2023), La Paz, Colombia, Noviembre 1-3, 2023. 

3. Tomás Ochoa, Cristián Serpell, Carlos Valle, Esteban Gil, "A Four Parameter Distribution Family for Probabilistic Load Forecasting and Scenario Generation with Mixture Density Networks", 2023 IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting (IEEE-PES-GM 2023), Orlando, USA, July 16-20, 2023.

4. Tomás Ochoa, Diego Vera, Esteban Gil, George Kerrigan, Víctor Hinojosa, "Assessing the economic impacts of the Chilean energy transition: an input-output hybrid equilibrium model", 8th Meeting on Energy and Environmental Economics (ME3), Aveiro, Portugal, May 8, 2023.

5. Tomás Ochoa, Esteban Gil, Alejandro Angulo, "Efficient Bidding of a PV Power Plant with Energy Storage Participating in Day-Ahead and Real-Time Markets Using Artificial Neural Networks", 2022 IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting (IEEE-PES-GM 2022), Denver, USA, July 17-21, 2022. DOI: 10.1109/PESGM48719.2022.9916732. Link

6. Alex Chicaiza, Víctor Hinojosa, Esteban Gil, Guillermo Gutiérrez, "Modeling the Stochastic Security-Constrained Unit Commitment Problem Considering Distribution Shift-Factors", X SICEL International Symposium (SICEL 2021), Pereira, Colombia, Oct. 12-15, 2021.

7. Joaquín de la Barra, Esteban Gil, Alejandro Angulo, Alejandro Navarro, "Effect of Failure Rates Uncertainty on Distribution Systems Reliability", 2020 IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting (IEEE-PES-GM 2020), Montreal, Canada, Aug. 2-6, 2020. DOI: 2020.10.1109/PESGM41954.2020.9281459. Link.

8. Elizabeth Paduro, Esteban Gil, "Clustering of Operational Conditions for Transmission Expansion Planning Studies Accounting for Spatial Diversity of Renewable Generation", 13th Latin-American Congress on Electric Power Generation, Transmission and Distribution (CLAGTEE 2019), Santiago, Chile, Oct. 20-23, 2019. Link PDF

9. Raúl Cárdenas, Esteban Gil, "A Lagrangian Relaxation Approach to Solve Two-Stage Stochastic Programming Problems in Energy Planning", 13th Latin-American Congress on Electric Power Generation, Transmission and Distribution (CLAGTEE 2019), Santiago, Chile, Oct. 20-23, 2019. Link PDF

10. Joaquín de la Barra, Alejandro Angulo, Esteban Gil, "Effect of Uncertainty in Failures Rates in the Protective Devices Planning Models", 13th Latin-American Congress on Electric Power Generation, Transmission and Distribution (CLAGTEE 2019), Santiago, Chile, Oct. 20-23, 2019. Link PDF

11. Javier Toro, Esteban Gil, "Power Systems Reliability Evaluation Considering Operational Flexibility Constraints of Generators ", 13th Latin-American Congress on Electric Power Generation, Transmission and Distribution (CLAGTEE 2019), Santiago, Chile, Oct. 20-23, 2019. Link PDF

12. Horacio Enero, Víctor Hinojosa, Esteban Gil, "Placement and Sizing Optimization of Battery Energy Storage System to Improve Small Signal Stability Response", 13th Latin-American Congress on Electric Power Generation, Transmission and Distribution (CLAGTEE 2019), Santiago, Chile, Oct. 20-23, 2019. Link PDF

13. Simón Veloso, Esteban Gil, Héctor Pulgar, “Application of Model Order Reduction to a DFIG-Based Wind Farm in the Chilean System”, 2019 IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting (IEEE-PES-GM 2019), Atlanta, USA, 5-9 Aug. 2019. DOI: 10.1109/PESGM40551.2019.8973998. Link PDF

14. Maximiliano Brito, Esteban Gil, Ignacio Calle, “Unit Commitment with Primary Frequency Control Requirements for Low-Inertia Systems”, 2018 IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting (IEEE-PES-GM 2018), Portland, USA, 5-9 Aug. 2018. DOI: 10.1109/PESGM.2018.8586613. Link PDF

15. Víctor Hinojosa, Esteban Gil, Ignacio Calle, “A stochastic generation capacity expansion planning methodology using linear distribution factors and hourly load modeling”, 15th International Conference on Probabilistic Methods Applied to Power Systems (PMAPS 2018), Boise, USA, June 24-28, 2018. DOI: 10.1109/PMAPS.2018.8440244. Link PDF

16. Benjamín Maluenda, Jorge Moreno, Donny Holaschutz, Esteban Gil, “New Market Interactions in the Chilean Electricity System with High Integration of Variable Renewable Energy”, 41st International Association for Energy Economics International Conference (IAEE 2018), Groningen, Netherlands, 10-13 June 2018. Link PDF

17. Erick López, Carlos Valle, Héctor Allende, Esteban Gil, “Long Short-Term Memory Networks based in Echo State Networks for Wind Speed Forecasting”, XXII Ibero-American Congress on Pattern Recognition (CIARP 2017), Valparaíso, Chile, 7-10 Nov. 2017. Link PDF

18. Néstor González, Guillermo Gutiérrez, Esteban Gil, “Determining Nodal Interruption Capacity with Reliability Assessment Method”, IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Latin America 2017 (ISGT-LA 2017), Quito, Ecuador, 20-22 September 2017. DOI: 10.1109/ISGT-LA.2017.8126692. Link PDF

19. Esteban Gil, Javier Toro, Guillermo Gutierrez, “Day-ahead reserve scheduling approaches under wind uncertainty”, 2017 IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting (IEEE-PES-GM 2017), Chicago, USA, 16-20 July 2017. DOI: 10.1109/PESGM.2017.8273993. Link PDF

20. Carlos Vergara, Esteban Gil, Ignacio Calle, Sergio Díaz, Jorge Velázquez, “Technical constraints in fossil fuel generators: impacts on long-term investments signals”, 12th IEEE PES PowerTech Conference, Manchester, UK, 18-22 June 2017. DOI: 10.1109/PTC.2017.7981071. Link PDF

21. Erick López, Carlos Valle, Héctor Allende, Esteban Gil, “Efficient Training over Long Short-Term Memory Networks for Wind Speed Forecasting”, XXI Ibero-American Congress on Pattern Recognition (CIARP 2016), Lima, Perú, 8-11 Nov. 2016. Link PDF

22. Esteban Gil, Juan Araya, “Parallelized Stochastic Short-term Hydrothermal Generation Scheduling”, 2016 IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting (IEEE-PES-GM 2016), Boston, USA, 17-21 Jul. 2016. DOI: 10.1109/PESGM.2016.7741570. Link PDF

23. Sergio Díaz, Esteban Gil, Andrea Palacios “Demand Side Management, an imperative asset for the Mining Industry”, 3rd International Seminar on Energy Management in Mining (ENERMIN 2016), Santiago, Chile, 24-26 Aug. 2016. DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.35427.14884. Link PDF

24. Alejandro Molina, Sergio Díaz, Esteban Gil, “The Problem of Energy Management in Chile and their Impact in Developing Mining Projects”, 3rd International Seminar on Energy Management in Mining (ENERMIN 2016), Santiago, Chile, 24-26 Aug. 2016. DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.14455.62883. Link PDF

25. Esteban Gil, Christian Soto “A suitable programming paradigm for optimizing short-term hydrothermal generation scheduling”, 5th International Conference on Engineering Optimization, Foz de Iguazu, Brazil, 19-23 June 2016. Link PDF

26. Esteban Gil, “Evaluación de impactos en la confiabilidad de sistemas eléctricos de potencia para distintos niveles de penetración de energía eólica y requerimientos de reservas operacionales”, VIII International Symposium on Power Quality (SICEL 2015), Valparaíso, Chile, Nov. 18-20, 2015. Link PDF

27. Esteban Gil, Juan Araya, “Short-term hydrothermal generation scheduling using a parallelized stochastic mixed-integer linear programming algorithm”, 5th International Workshop on Hydro Scheduling in Competitive Electricity Markets, Trondheim, Norway, Sep. 17-18, 2015. Link PDF

28. Esteban Gil, Ignacio Aravena, Raúl Cárdenas, “Generation capacity expansion planning under hydro uncertainty using stochastic mixed integer programming and scenario reduction”, 2015 IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting (IEEE-PES-GM 2015), Denver, USA, Jul. 26-30, 2015. Link PDF

29. William Gandulfo, Esteban Gil, Ignacio Aravena, “Generation Capacity Expansion Planning under Demand Uncertainty Using Stochastic Mixed-Integer Programming”, 2014 IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting (IEEE-PES-GM 2014), National Harbour, USA, Jul. 27-31, 2014. DOI: 10.1109/PESGM.2014.6939368. Link PDF

30. Rodrigo Wetzel, Esteban Gil, “Monte Carlo-based method to estimate the capacity value of wind power considering operational aspects”, 13th International Conference on Probabilistic Methods Applied to Power Systems (PMAPS 2014), Durham, UK, Jul. 7-10, 2014. DOI: 10.1109/PMAPS.2014.6960660. Link PDF

31. Esteban Gil, Ignacio Aravena, “Evaluating the contribution of intermittent generation to power system adequacy at different demand levels”, 2013 IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting (IEEE-PES-GM 2013), Vancouver, Canada, Jul. 21-25, 2013. DOI: 10.1109/PESMG.2013.6672777. Link PDF

32. Claudio Castillo, Esteban Gil, “Assessing power system adequacy for different penetrations of wind and solar capacity in a thermal system”, 10th Latin-American Congress on Electric Power Generation, Transmission and Distribution (CLAGTEE 2013), Viña del Mar, Chile, Oct. 6-9, 2013. Link PDF

33. Ignacio Aravena, Raúl Cárdenas, Esteban Gil, Victor Hinojosa, Patricio Reyes, Juan C. Araneda, “Co-optimization of generation and transmission investment decisions under hydro uncertainty using stochastic mixed-integer programming”, 10th Latin-American Congress on Electric Power Generation, Transmission and Distribution (CLAGTEE 2013), Viña del Mar, Chile, Oct. 6-9, 2013. Link PDF

34. Alvaro Moya, Esteban Gil and Alfredo de la Quintana, “A Monte Carlo Method for Reliability Evaluation of a System Integrity Protection Scheme in the Chilean Power Grid”, 6th Workshop on Applied Modelling and Simulation (WAMS 2013), Buenos Aires, Argentina, Nov. 24-27, 2013. Link PDF

35. Néstor González-Cabrera, Guillermo Gutierrez, Esteban Gil, “Load forecasting assessment using SARIMA model and fuzzy inductive reasoning”, 2013 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management, Bangkok, Thailand, Dec. 2013 10-13. DOI: 10.1109/IEEM.2013.6962474. Link PDF

36. Javier Toro, Esteban Gil, “Impacto del error de predicción de viento en el predespacho de un sistema eminentemente térmico con alta penetración eólica”, Ingelectra 2013, Antofagasta, Chile, Nov. 14-15, 2013. Link PDF

37. Esteban Gil, Ignacio Aravena, “A LOLP-based method to evaluate the contribution of wind generation to power system adequacy”, 4th International Renewable Energy Congress (IREC 2012), Sousse, Tunisia, Dec. 19-22, 2012. Link PDF

38. Esteban Gil, “Evaluating the Impact of Wind Power Uncertainty on Power System Adequacy”, 12th International Conference on Probabilistic Methods Applied to Power Systems (PMAPS 2012), Istanbul, Turkey, Jun. 10-14, 2012. Link PDF

39. Esteban Gil, Ana Quelhas, James McCalley, Timothy Van Voorhis, “Modeling integrated energy transportation networks for analysis of economic efficiency and network interdependencies”, Proceedings of the 35th North American Power Symposium, University of Missouri Rolla, Oct. 20-21, 2003. Link PDF

Conference presentations

Esteban Gil, “New Ancillary Services for the Chilean Electricity Market”, 2nd Complex Energy Systems Workshop: Intelligence and Flexibility in Future Electricity Markets, Santiago, Chile, Nov. 20th 2017. Link PDF

Esteban Gil, “New Ancillary Services for the Chilean Electricity Market”, 2nd Complex Energy Systems Workshop: Intelligence and Flexibility in Future Electricity Markets, Santiago, Chile, Nov. 20th 2017. Link PDF

Esteban Gil, Raúl Cárdenas, "Handling hydro uncertainty in electric power systems investment planning through stochastic mixed-integer programming”, International Conference in Stochastic Programming (ICSP 2016), Búzios, Brazil, Jun. 25th to July 1st, 2016. Link PDF

Esteban Gil, “Handling the reliability impacts of variable generation”, Workshop: Challenges and Solutions for a Lower-Carbon Electricity System, Santiago, Chile, May 31th 2016. Link PDF

Esteban Gil, “New paradigms in power systems operations and planning”, Seminar: Energía 2050: Sociedad, Ciencia y Tecnología, Santiago, Chile, May 30th 2016. Link PDF

Esteban Gil, Carlos Vergara, Juan Araya, “Scenario generation and reduction for stochastic optimization in hydrothermal systems”, German Probability and Statistics Days 2016 (GPSD 2016), Bochum, Germany, Mar. 1-4, 2016. Link PDF

Esteban Gil, “Expansión de capacidad bajo incertidumbre usando programación estocástica entera-mixta”, Workshop: Nuevos paradigmas en la planificación de redes eléctricas, Valparaíso, Chile, Jan. 2016. Link PDF

Esteban Gil, Juan Araya “Parallelized stochastic short-term hydrothermal generation scheduling using the progressive hedging algorithm in Pyomo”, Workshop Pyomo, Santiago, Chile, Dec. 2015. Link PDF